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Mike Dunn - Solo Tour 2010

Hello friends! It has been a while. In the past year The Kings Of New England and I have had some big moments. We played the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas for the first time. It was a fun trip through the South, the rest of the band celebrated with lukewarm cans of Lone Star beer as we passed through Mississippi where apparently there are no open container laws. Don’t worry, I...

Sep 8th

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Sundowner Is Here! (On The Internet)

Hello Friends! Today is the day. At 12:01am this morning our new record went LIVE on iTunes and AmazonMP3. We hope you enjoy it, we put a lot of work into it and we think it shows. Thank you for your support leading up to this record. We have plenty more to come. This is just the beginning of the party, we hope you stick around a while, grab a drink, grab a plate, settle in and have a...

Oct 6th

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Mike's Tour Blog: Vol. IV Issue III

These are all from CJ’s Phone, he’s a weird/awesome dude. See more at flickr.com/mdtkone

Sep 28th

Mike's Tour Blog: Vol. IV Issue II

This is our friend John Ralston. I remember back in 2002 my old band got to open for a band he fronted called Legends of Rodeo. Their CD was on sale at Park Ave CDs JR. for 4 bucks. I bought most of the music I own from the used section at that little CD store on my college campus. It was where we would hang between classes, I remember rooting around in the free bin to find all types of...

Sep 24th

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Mike's Tour Blog: Vol. IV Issue I

I’m sitting in a club out of DC and I’ve had my first bit of solid internet for a day or two, it is nice. I have a couple minutes until soundcheck, just enough to check in. We’ve had an amazing time so far. If you haven’t seen us on the tour yet, we’ve been doing this one a little differently. For the length of the tour we will and have been acting as John...

Sep 14th

Sep 4th

Sundowner

1. The Promised Land 2. Princeton 3. Marietta 4. Dusty Photographs 5. Jealous Head 6. The Sunshine State 7. Don’t Your Dare 8. All My Love 9. Cigarette 10. Crooked Tooth Grin 11. Sundowner There it is folks! My email to our manager and label went something like “is it cool if I put this up?”, I got the official “why not” about 30 minutes ago. This is the...

Sep 3rd

Preparing For A Tour

Mike: you cj and i should get computers out and message and plan and delegate responsibilities
Jacob: you drive. i play bass. cj says awkward stuff. responsibilities. delgated
Mike: haha, sounds about right

Sep 3rd

In Defense of a Quote

Joseph Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 31, 1987) “I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.” That’s something this fine and stylish gentleman above said, and I (equally importantly) Retweeted. This is one of Campbell’s more controversial quotes, it’s not as touchy feely as the one he’s best...

Aug 27th

Aug 17th

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Jun 24th

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Louis: Dude I'm pumped to hear the sundowner
Louis: It's like Chinese democracy years in the making ha ha
Me: Haha yes but with more electro brakes and braided wigs
Louis: It's gonna rule I'll work them on the radio tomorrow

Jun 17th

Polarize : June 2009

Jun 2nd

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Shows

May 27th

May 20th

MDRB

May 19th

Polarize

My buddy Lou shared this iPhone App with me that turns you little low light camera pictures into sweet polaroids, I’m a fan. http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpdunn/

May 18th

Mike's Blog: May 15th, 2009

This morning our good friend Matt Malpass is mixing the final track of our new LP, the title track, Sundowner. I remember wrapping up the EP we did completely with Matt. We were only supposed to spend four days on the record, it turned into five or six. We were having a good time. It was the first thing I recorded professionally, I was still learning my own voice. I don’t think it was...

May 15th

Mike's Tour Blog: Vol. III Issue III

Saturday in New York made me think about changes in scenery. You know sometimes when you’re all alone on a big stretch of highway you play mind games or maybe the other way around. If you think hard enough, and this can only happen on those big desert stretchs where nothing much changes, you start to feel like you car is stationary and the world is just spinning under it. After all the...

May 7th

May 5th

Mike's Tour Blog: Vol. III Issue II

NEW YORK CITY!!!! Wait. No. Yeah. NEW YORK CITY!!!! So we finally got into New York City on Friday afternoon. I remembered this trip I took during my senior year of high school. I went to a Catholic high school, so Catholic in fact that it would really bug me not spell Catholic with a capital “C” or God with a capital “G”. We used to do these...

Apr 28th

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Apr 28th

Don't Drink and Text

Mike Dunn: You're pretty
Me: You're charming
Mike Dunn: You're talented 
Me: You're Rock'N'Roll 
Mike Dunn: You're fresh and clean 
Me: You're a gay icon and an inspiration to millions 
Mike Dunn: You climbed Mount Kilamonjaro and masturbated on top of it and that's how AIDS started
Me: You're saliva cured Polio 
Mike Dunn: You've died and resurrected seven times 
Me: You were circumcised three times at the age of twenty
Mike Dunn: Your DNA is coded and replicated in the year 2035 to create an army of space marines 
Me: Your EP "The Edge of America" spawned Scientology 
Mike Dunn: Your Self Titled debut triggered the apocalypse 
Me: Your new unreleased album has a huge boner right now
Mike Dunn: You're truck had octuplets with Andy Zipf 
Me: Your van breaks down all of the time. It wants to die because of your involvement with Chad Pearson
Mike Dunn: Your heart is an ancient apparatus forged in the lava pits of Mordor 
Me: Shivawn said " What a fucking nerd." 
Mike Dunn: Shivawn is the ancient goddess warrior who threw your heart in the pit 
Me: Mike Dunn has girth not length.
Mike Dunn: I have a hero's member.

Apr 18th

Mike's Tour Blog: Vol. III Issue I

NEW YORK CITY!!!!!!! Well, not yet. About 2 years ago (1 year 323 days 4 hours 22 minutes… thank you gmail) Alex from the Damnwells wrote me a message about possibly openning a show for them in New York City. The Damnwells we’re my new band to root for, I drove around listening to Bastards of the Beat and was burning copies of Air Stereo for all my friends (Sorry/You’re...

Apr 13th

Apr 10th

Redlight Redlight Adoption Benefit

Hello sports fans. It’s a beautiful day in sunny Winter Park Florida, I regret not owning a set of windchimes. There’s a gentle breeze in the air, a peaceful easy feeling, maybe its just the calm before the storm. We’re embarking on one of the most hectic trips of our short careers in hopes that it will be equally rewarding. The elements are definitely in line, we’ve...

Mar 25th

Tooth Hurty

Me: hey
Me: whats the best time to go to the dentist
Jacob: 2:30
Me: 2:30
Jacob: that's my joke, a hole
Me: that joke doesnt work as well on the internet

Mar 5th

Did you listen to the mix?

Me: did you listen to the mix?
Joey: yep but on jacobs crap speakers
Joey: so i am going to listen to it in the car tonight
Joey: and lauren will give me a critique
Joey: and then ill disagree and well get in a huge argument
Joey: that is my way
Joey: gotta go get my jacket steamed
Joey: see you later
Joey: 

Feb 20th

The Sundowner Sessions / Part III

This past weekend, well the one before it, we recorded the last song (and title track) of our full length. It’s called “Sundowner”, I’ve written about 5 or 6 versions of it, I like the one we stuck with. I was reading Interviews with Tom Petty when I decided on the title of the record, mainly I like the sound out of it but I have a couple interpretations of the title. ...

Feb 20th

Oh Label Dude, My Label Dude

This has been posted by a couple friends but if you haven’t seen it yet check out this article about my friend and guy who makes good things happen for the band, Chad Pearson.

Feb 18th

Modern Romance Vol. I Issue I

Life is moving fast. This is a quick one. I logged on myspace yesterday, they thought I might be looking for a girlfriend and they took a shot in the dark as to what that potential girlfriend might look like… You know know me so well Myspace. Real substantive post RE: our weekend of recording with Mr. John Ralston.

Feb 13th

Our Friends: The Damnwells

The Damnwells are doing something special today, they are releasing their album, One Last Century, for free. No catch, just free. Not free as in, “hey this is free just sign up for netflix”* junk free, but free, as in free. They’re doing this because they want you to hear the record and I want you to hear it too. Lets see here, I think the Damnwells seeped into my sub...

Feb 10th

“Jesus Christ isn’t here anymore, is He?” - John Ralston

Feb 9th

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Our Friend: Damion Suomi

A couple of my friends have records coming out in the coming months and I think this is a fine place to tell you about them and how damn good they are. I met Damion a couple years ago, my friend Soorya told me about his band Dame. I’m pretty sure I went to see them at the Backbooth and I liked it but it was far too “acoustic-y” for my tastes at the time. Mind you at the time...

Feb 3rd

Mike's Tour Blog: Vol. II Issue VI

Rice and beans, rice and beans. For the entirety of February I’m eating rice and beans, just rice and beans. I’m allowing myself two exceptions. The first is Valentines dinner and the second is Jacob’s birthday dinner. Both of these meals will be fantastic, I’m sure of it. This is not a dietary blog, this isn’t a track of some type of progress. I’m a...

Feb 2nd

Mike's Tour Blog: Vol. II Issue V

Joey, Jacob and our tour mates The ELMS / Orlando, FL Roadside Gators / Gainesville, FL Jacob and Gator Heads / Gainesville, FL The Peter Meter : A Household Necessity Jacob bought the “Peter Meter” on the second day of tour, it was loads of entertainment for 50 cents. Some of the measurements had notations, my favorite was “for large women and cattle”. Lude. ...

Jan 30th

“When you follow your passion, society’s help is gone. You must be careful. You’re completely on your own.” -Joseph Campbell Thanks @daysuomi

Jan 26th

Mike's Tour Blog: Vol. II Issue IV

I love driving.Out of necessity I’ve driven a van or mini van (ladies love them) for the majority of my adult life. That wasn’t always so, my first car was a mid 90s mustang, you know the ones where they were more curvy looking. I loved driving that car, it got wrecked a bunch though, usually not my fault. I got ran off the road and blew out two tires and rims, got in a wreck with...

Jan 25th

Mike's Tour Blog: Vol. II Issue III

Yes yes, I’m acutely aware that this update is already pretty antiquated. It’s important to put pen to paper, or pixel to screen as it may be, to remember these things though. In fact I think I’m enjoying recapping these events the more I’m distanced from them. I believe the last time we spoke we were on our way to Nashville. Driving through Memphis was everything I...

Jan 17th

Mike's Tour Blog: Vol. II Issue II

Note to self: Call Ratty for names/places & insert pictures/videos… Where were we? Oh, leaving… So, the smokers Hearne, Jacob and I got comfy in the van and began our trek. Our first out of town show was in Oxford Mississippi. This guy Andrew Ratcliffe who has done some really cool records with some really cool people did a really cool thing and set up a show for us in his home...

Dec 15th

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Mike's Tour Blog: Vol. II Issue I

Back in August this dude Thom added us on myspace and he had one of our jams on his page. He looked familiar, I knew I had seen him somewhere. Anyways, we chatted and he was a nice dude and we had the same attitude about music. You find something cool, something you dig, it is your duty as a lover of good things to share that good thing with your friends. We are both men of duty. Anyways Thom is...

Dec 10th

Guest Blogger: Jeff Snow Glam Rock Hair Metal PhD.

Here’s an email from this morning… mikedunncontact@gmail.com to JEFF SNOW SUBJECT: Hair Metal Suggestions Jeff, I want to post a blog with your amazing metal playlist from the trip can you recap it for me? Fun time man, you did great. See you this weekend! JEFF SNOW to mikedunncontact@gmail.com SUBJECT: Sure Thing It all started with a little Cinderella. “Gypsy Road” off...

Jul 22nd

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The Sundowner Sessions / Part II

Score: 4915 Time: 135 “I’m pretty happy with small satisfactions these days”, I thought as I starred, nay basked, in the amazement of my finest Solitaire score yet at work. 3 card draw, standard scoring, timed game, orange cards with the frog on it, Windows XP. Last night we finished up some background vocals, the “na-na-nas” on this song called Cigarette made me...

Jun 19th

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The Sundowner Sessions / Part I

“I think this is going to be the first song, it needs a something cool at the beginning. Maybe some feedback? Is that hack? Who cares as long as it sounds cool.” CJ turned the tiny Dr. Z head up all the way. It’s only 10 watts, you have to crank it. Something’s coming. Like a hundred crashing guitars… or just a big bass chord. It’s definitely big and it’s...

Apr 14th

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The Best Song of 2007

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you my favorite song of 2007. But first, before the big reveal let me tell you a little bit about how this song hit me. I am working man. I have a credit card and bills and a drinking habit and a going to movies habit and a buying things habit and a fixing gear necessity and a van that gets 13 miles to the gallon. What I’m trying to say is I need money, and...

Jan 7th